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Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy have their guide to the day ahead in British politics. With Volodymyr Zelenskyy heading to Saudi Arabia to join US-sponsored peace talks in Saudi Arabia, Sam and Anne assess the UK’s response to any concessions Ukraine might be made to make to Russia. And with Mark Carney waiting in the wings to take over from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Canada, how will his premiership differ and how will he respond to Trump’s threat of tariffs? Domestically, Labour’s wish for economic growth is well known, but do their planning…

Some tabloids have stoked fears that the EU will soon ban coffee after the European Commission allegedly labelled caffeine dangerous for human consumption. News reports and viral social posts are claiming that the EU has labelled coffee as dangerous for humans.A headline from opinion-orientated news channel GB News accuses “meddling Brussels bureaucrats” of declaring coffee unsafe, while The Telegraph has led with the line that the EU has labelled coffee as dangerous because caffeine is “harmful to humans if swallowed”, stoking fears of a coffee-ban around the bloc.Yet another article from NDTV World says that the EU has banned caffeine…

Airbus announced in December that it would cut around 2,000 jobs in its Defence and Space division, after its satellite production came under pressure from U.S. competition. “If we are not able to scale up in sectors like space or defense,  we will remain marginal and we will not have the means to invest in the constellations or new technologies at the necessary height,” said Faury. It’s not Europe’s only attempt to compete with Starlink. “The space industry is evolving rapidly, with private entities like SpaceX’s Starlink dominating Low Earth Orbit satellite deployments,” said Zsuzsanna Benyo. | Mario Tama/Getty Images…

Harijs Rokpelnis, a top official in the Greens and Farmer’s Union, a member of Latvia’s ruling coalition, said the urgency of the moment requires that politicians ignore the ECB’s advice, however sound it may be. “Looking from the purely technocratic view of economics, they have a point,” he acknowledged, while pushing for seizure nonetheless. The ECB, in turn, can maintain its technocratic position to save face, and both sides can agree to disagree, he added. Certain central bankers may privately agree with seizing the assets, said two other people, and are more than happy for politicians to go along with…

– Anstehende Koalitionsverhandlungen: Wie sehr können die Grünen wirklich mitreden, deren Stimmen es für das Sondervermögen braucht? Würden sie das Milliardenpaket tatsächlich scheitern lassen? Eine Analyse von Gordon Repinski.– Migration, Zurückweisungen, Asylwende: Rasmus Buchsteiner erklärt, wo sowohl CDU als auch SPD in den Sondierungen zurückgesteckt haben und wieso die große Wende wohl vorerst ausbleibt.– Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: SPD-Generalsekretär Matthias Miersch über die Koalitionsverhandlungen, den Widerstand der Jusos und die Frage: Steht die neue Regierung bis Ostern – oder droht doch noch das Scheitern?– Krawall auf dem Platz, aber Einigkeit auf der Tribüne: Wie Hannovers und Braunschweigs Oberbürgermeister gemeinsam Harmonie demonstrieren.  Das…

China is set to impose tariffs on some Canadian goods in retaliation to Canada’s levies on Chinese electric vehicles and metals as the global trade war heats up. China announced on Saturday that it will impose retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian goods, marking a further escalation in the global trade war. Beijing stated that it will impose 100% tariffs on rapeseed oil, oil cakes, and peas, alongside a 25% import levy on aquatic products and pork from Canada, effective 20 March.Intensifying China-Canada trade conflictsIn October, Ottawa slapped a 100% import levy on Chinese electric vehicles and a 25% tariff on…

LONDON — When Octopus Energy boss Greg Jackson appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2023 — one of the U.K.’s longest-running, most-loved BBC radio shows — his first song choice was a 1980s banger: Yazz’s “The Only Way Is Up.” The optimism was on-brand for Jackson, one of the energy industry’s most polished lobbyists with half of Westminster on speed dial. Octopus, the clean energy start-up he founded in 2015, this year became the single largest provider to U.K. households. The multibillion pound firm has its tentacles firmly around the corridors of power, selling politicians on its vision of homes…

EuroStack advocates see that the tide can be turned only with sustained investment, guaranteed government demand, and unified rules on transferring and securing data.  Sebastiano Toffaletti, secretary-general of the Digital SME Alliance and one of the authors of a study on the EuroStack, claims that a Buy European Tech Act could be a decisive step toward a European cloud.  “Europe has plenty of industrial capacity that just needs to be federated,” he said.  “If the European companies were reassured that governments would buy from them, then they would immediately invest and overcome the fragmentation,” he said. The same goes for AI,…

Former central banker Mark Carney is set to become Canada’s next prime minister after succeeding Justin Trudeau as leader of the governing Liberal Party. Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after Canada’s ruling Liberal Party elected him as its leader on Sunday to replace Justin Trudeau.Trudeau had resigned as prime minister on 6 January as domestic problems mounted, plummeting his popularity in the country. He had vowed to stay in power until his party elects a new leader to replace him.The Canadian leader had come under pressure from his own party who lost their trust in him, resulting…

Trudeau gives his final speech as Canadian Prime Minister. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an emotional farewell speech to a conference of his Liberal Party on Sunday.The Canadian leader served in his post for almost a decade, assuming the top job on 4 November, 2015.Trudeau resigned from his post on 6 January after months of domestic problems which saw his popularity plummet. The declining economic conditions and the country’s direction resulted in dismal polls for Trudeau, who fell in popularity by a significant two digit margin to his main rival Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party.Trudeau was also under…